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See How Easily Your Photos Can Create Impact

May 9, 2011 2 Comments

Over and under exposure can lead to photos with impact.

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Mandalay Burma temple silhouettes against a frame.

Five Variations on a Theme: Shooting Silhouettes

May 2, 2011 1 Comment

Learn how to make stunning silhouettes with these five techniques.

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Balinese women balancing eggs. Bali Indonesia

Shoot Themes When You Travel

April 26, 2011 3 Comments

Spice up your travel photography tip # 5: Use themes to shoot your travel stories!

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Girls on bikes, Hoi An Vietnam.

Keep Your Camera in Motion

April 20, 2011 5 Comments

Spice up your travel photography tip # 3: Learn how to capture motion

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A Changing Story

March 19, 2011 2 Comments

Tell a story tipsy with content and brimming with beautiful imagery.

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Photography Doesn’t Fix Everything

March 3, 2011 4 Comments

Light doesn’t change things, just how they look.

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Beginner’s Guide to Light

February 12, 2011 8 Comments

Practice recognizing and using these basic lighting situations, and make your photos pop.

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Photo Equipment Part 2: What’s in the Bag

January 13, 2011 0 Comments

Some people take photos because they travel. I travel so I can take photos.

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Eating Bali

September 18, 2010 2 Comments

People say, when traveling, eat the local food, right? So yeah, there I was being a good little traveler and ordering the Indonesian chicken curry. (How can you go wrong with the interesting spelling and curry?)

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Is RTW right for you?

July 28, 2010 6 Comments

Sometimes when I completely fall in love with a place, I want to stay indefinitely. Standing in the Sunday market in Bac Ha, Vietnam, my senses are overwhelmed by the colors.  My camera is on overdrive. I am in heaven. But I spend exactly one day in Bac Ha, leave the North of Vietnam, fly [...]

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What’s in a Name?

July 27, 2010 18 Comments

“What’s in a name?” says Juliet to the night sky, in the famous balcony scene of Shakespeare’s play. I bet she did not know about a baby girl who was so fat that when she sat in lotus position on her grandfather’s lap, folds of  her flesh hung in layers, so he affectionately nicknamed her [...]

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Backstage at Uluwatu

July 26, 2010 2 Comments

Photos by Aloha Lavina From a sleepy rice farming community, the village of Uluwatu has transformed itself into prosperity thanks to Kecak, a chanting musical featuring familiar characters from the Ramayana. Because it’s such an exciting, beautiful show, I’ve gone three times in as many trips to Bali. For 70,000 Rupiah, you can catch this [...]

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The Good, the Bugs, and the Ugly

July 24, 2010 8 Comments

A Little Romp Through Some Travel Stereotypes At four-thirty in the morning, it’s pretty noticeable when someone is yelling or talking unnaturally fast. My brain cells have hardly woken up, standing in line at Passport Control at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok. The blonde woman in the red Billabong sweater, the one whose departure card and AirAsia [...]

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